Use Sentiment Analysis With Python to Classify Reviews

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Installation

Create and activate a new virtual environment:

$ python -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate

Install Python dependencies into the active virtual environment:

(.venv) $ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Download English model for spaCy:

(.venv) $ python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

Download and extract the Large Movie Review Dataset compiled by Andrew Maas:

$ curl -s https://ai.stanford.edu/~amaas/data/sentiment/aclImdb_v1.tar.gz | tar xvz

Usage

Get the sentiment of a movie review stored in the TEST_REVIEW variable:

(.venv) $ python sentiment_analyzer.py